

QUEENSCLIFF. 



THE CITY OF MELBOURNE. 



PORT PHILLIP BAY. 



N the olden time which, in Victoria, means about thirty-five years ago when the new- 

 comer had made the voyage from England by a sailing vessel in ninety days, and 

 had never caught a glimpse of land from the hour of his quitting the Channel until he 

 sighted Cape Otway, he was accustomed to approach Port Phillip Heads with glowing 

 anticipations of the pleasure he would experience in bathing his eyes in the verdure of 

 umbrageous woods and dewy pastures. But having left England in the early autumn, 

 it may be, and reached the shores of Australia in the middle of the summer, the first 

 glimpse he obtained of the country, in which he was about to make his home, was a 



